Flea – Helen Burns LP NEW on Sale

Flea – Helen Burns LP

NEW. SEALED.

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With a sorrowful title track that features Patti Smith singing alongside Flea on piano, Helen Burns is an unexpected departure for the usually raging slap-bass virtuoso and full-time Red Hot Chili Pepper. Recorded just after the Stadium Arcadium tour, the project started as a way for his touring keyboardist Chris Warren to learn the ins and outs of recording, but after Flea s music started taking shape, he decided to complete it and make it available as a free download through the Silverlake Conservatory of Music website. Like John Frusciante s solo outings, the music is artistic, daring, and a little far out, but decidedly better than one might expect. Jazz and electronic music play an influence, with 333 soaring through psychedelic territory like a Flying Lotus cut, and Pedestal of Infamy grooving along as nicely as a track by Broadcast. An underrated, technically accomplished musician, Flea s abilities are surprising on whatever instrument he chooses to play — from keyboards, to trumpet, to percussion, to double bass — but the real achievement is in the songwriting.